Re: Cool Menus, tooltips

To your first question, im not sure that Microsoft is using MFC to program

the Office programs (anybody knows for sure?) too much legacy code id imagine.

Adding tooltips to a dialog:

add a member variable to your dialog class for each control in your dialog

i.e if you have an OK button add a CButton m_cmdOKl; etc

add a CToolTipCTRl m_ToolTip; control

override the PreTranslateMessage() function with

m_toolTip.RealEvent(pMsg);

return CDialog::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);

create the tooltip control when you initialize the dialog

m_Tooltip.Create(this) //you must check to see if this works

add the controls to the tooltip

m_ToolTip.AddTool(&m_cmdOK,IDS_TT_OK);


finally activate the tooltip

m_ToolTip.Activate(TRUE);


good luck